Summary
Tall, robed and turbaned Egyptian man brought to New York by Lieutenant Commander Henry Gorringe, who stood motionless atop the foundation stones during the 1880 Masonic cornerstone ceremony for the Central Park obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle); CWB's third candidate for the historical basis of Neville's teacher Abdullah, accepted as doubtful per Rudi's 2026-07-23 ruling on hist_event 1002.